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(Glasperlenspiel? A favorite of mine.) > generating new thought I was beguiled yesterday (reflecting on our chattering mechanical friends) with the idea (new

(Glasperlenspiel? A favorite of mine.) > generating new thought I was beguiled yesterday (reflecting on our chattering mechanical friends) with the idea (new for me) that production of 'thought' doesn't necessarily require a 'thinker'. It's just that we thinkers -- that is the HomoSapiens -- have only known of production of thought as thinkers, and assumed there is 'thinking' involved. (This is what is causing the confusion in some granting GPT the coveted 'thinker' and 'thinking' status.) If that is the case, then we have misnamed 'thought': It was always nothing more than a proposition, but we assumed it was intimately connected with the experience of thinking.

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> Glasperlenspiel? Genau. I especially appreciate how millefiori glass beads are a physical incarnation of the literary device of quoting other works... > If that is the case, then we have misnamed 'thought': It was always nothing more than a proposition, but we assumed it was intimately connected with the experience of thinking. That makes a great deal of sense to me; in that world 'thinking' is like imperative small-step operational semantics, while 'thought' would correspond with functional big-step denotational semantics. The former suffices to produce the latter, but is by no means necessary.